If you’ve been suffering from infertility and have decided to try acupuncture to resolve your problem, what will you do if your physician does not have any referral sources or if you don’t know anybody who has been treated by an acupuncturist? Do you just pull out the phone book and start calling people or do you go online and search for a practitioner who’s offering his services near your area? How will you be … Continue reading
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Useful Chinese Medicine Modalities to Treat Dysmenorrhea
Pertaining to a recurring stomach pain, dysmenorrhea is oftentimes felt before or during menstruation. It is experienced mostly by young women around the 2nd or 3rd year after the onset of their menstruation. Dysmenorrhea is marked by menstrual pain accompanied by a pulling sensation in the inner thighs or pain in the lower back, lower stomach pain, and cramping. These symptoms may be accompanied by constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and headaches. Dysmenorrhea is a … Continue reading
Try Out Acupuncture For The Treatment of Your Fibroids
Usually developing in the uterus, fibroids are considered tumors that are not cancerous. Nevertheless, in spite of its benign nature, fibroids can still wreak havoc to a woman’s health and may endanger her pregnancy. They can make sex painful and cause cramping. Western medicine has not yet determined whether acupuncture actually works in lessening fibroids but practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have stated that acupuncture can indeed remove energy impedance that shows itself through … Continue reading
Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatments for Genital Herpes
An infection derived from the herpes simplex virus, genital herpes is an acute inflammatory disease that nowadays has become quite common due to the ease this disease can be transmitted. This infection is considered a sexually transmitted disease (STD) that has been infecting more and more people each year. In the United States, there are about 500,000 new cases of this disease each year and there are about 40 million people who are believed to … Continue reading
The Liver Organ System as Seen by Traditional Chinese Medicine
The function of the liver in Western medicine is to manufacture and produce bile. Bile is important for the detoxification of blood and the breaking down of fat. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), however, the liver has functions that are quite different from that described by Western medicine. In TCM, this organ’s responsibilities include the control of the circulatory system, the autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system that govern actions that the … Continue reading
The importance of Integrating Acupuncture Into Drug Addiction Therapy
In the United States, alternative medicine is a growing billion-dollar industry. In 1990, Americans spent about more than 10 billion dollars out of their own pocket money on alternative modes of treatment compared to more than 12 billion dollars on hospitalizations based on a research gathered by The New England Journal of Medicine in 1993. Interestingly, the research also revealed that Americans made less visits to primary care doctors (388 million) than they did alternative … Continue reading
The Benefits Related to Acupuncture for the Treatment of Infertility
A lot of individuals who are experiencing infertility are seeking out ways that will help them overcome their condition without resorting to uncomfortable, highly invasive and very expensive therapies. Acupuncture treatments for infertility have shown to not only to be effective but are also much easier for the patient to undergo than almost all treatment modalities for infertility.
Practiced for thousands of years, acupuncture is a unique Chinese treatment that can treat several and different … Continue reading
The Benefits of Acupuncture and TCM for Low Back Pain Sufferers
In the United States, doctors have mostly received patients who complain about low back pain. This condition is probably the number one reason why people miss work. The Mayo Clinic has stated that almost all people living in the United States will experience at least one form of low back pain at least in once in their lives.
People may experience back pain from a number of possible causes. The pain might be due to … Continue reading
TCM Can Provide a Cure for Orthostatic Hypotension
I had a 40 year old patient who was suffering from a condition known as Orthostatic Hypotension. She had to don therapeutic pressure stockings everyday that helped lessen the symptoms of her disorder. Because she felt extreme discomfort wearing those stockings, she asked me if Chinese medicine and acupuncture in Bellingham can help with her condition so she may not need to wear those stockings anymore. I examined her and saw that she was suffering … Continue reading
TCM Can Help Resolve the Root Cause and Symptoms of Heart Palpitations
Studies done regarding acupuncture’s efficacy in addressing atrial fibrillation have produced some encouraging proofs that Portland acupuncture can indeed help resolve heart palpitations. However, it needs to be mentioned that the constant and frequent use of a specific acupoint to resolve a condition would be highly irregular in traditional Chinese medicine practice as it can lead to a problem even if studies have demonstrated positive outcomes and much more so when inconclusive results are … Continue reading